TikTok Accused of Harming Teens’ Mental Health in Leaked Lawsuit

According to a new report by NPR and Kentucky Public Radio, the TikTok team is aware of the harm TikTok causes to teens and young people. This finding was made after 14 US attorney generals took TikTok to court after suing the platform for causing harm to the mental health of children. Even though the papers those attorneys submitted to the court were kept hidden, some reporters got successful in reading the contents of those papers.

The contents of the papers stated that TikTok is affecting the thinking, analyzing, memorizing and conversational skills of children which is leading to negative mental health and anxiety related issues. The suit also talked about a feature which allows parents to limit their children's time spent on TikTok.

But apparently, this feature only reduces the average 1.5 minutes of TikTok usage. TikTok just claims that they are trying to improve the public trust on the platform but in truth, it isn't doing anything. A TikTok representative said that it is very careless that JJ NPR has published some contents of the lawsuit because it is misleading the public as there is no context to them.

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by Arooj Ahmed via Digital Information World